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Oareşce emoţii sunt de aşteptat de la un anticar când e luat pe sus, direct din pat, şi dus la Comandatură. Bine măcar că şoferul nici nu mă bagă în seamă, conduce maşina pe străzile încă pustii cu aroganţa învingătorului. Fericiţi cei ce nu-şi cunosc viitorul! Mă întreb ce-ar spune dacă i-aş şopti la ureche că, nu peste foarte mult timp, va fi mort, prizonier sau măcar muritor de foame. ↗

— Stefana Cristina Czeller

#nemira #science-fiction #time-travel #timp #science

Children discover and verify their theories in quite the same way that scientists do: through experimentation. They manipulate the world and discover regularities of causation from those manipulations. Why do they do it? The discovery of regularities comes with a pleasurable burst of insight, which all of us, but especially children and scientists, continuously long for like bonbons or opium. ↗

— Matthew M. Hurley Daniel C. Dennet Reginald B. Adams

#discovery #science #science

Apres moi le wreckage ↗

— Simon Haynes

#science-fiction #science

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#majority #right-and-wrong #truth #wrong #wrong

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#science

It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct. ↗

— Michio Kaku

#science #science

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#biology #id #intelligent-design #optimisation #optimization

You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some steps in the courtyard where Linter's place was, and I looked across it and there was a little notice on the wall saying it was forbidden to take photographs of the courtyard without the man's permission. [..] They want to own the light! ↗

— Iain Banks

#human-nature #observation #science-fiction #art

Conceited little mega-puppy. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#science-fiction #humor

Science is all about proving theories and understanding the universe. Science folds everything into neat logical well-explained packages. The fey are magical capricious illogical and unexplainable. Science cannot prove the existence of faeries so naturally we do not exist. That type of nonbelief is fatal to faries. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#magic-bleeds #science #nature